Correct me if I'm wrong, but the ego of the language creators seems to shine through in at least this[0] reference page, though. The most important bit I'd like to get some clarification on:
> Long viewed as an important theoretical idea, functional programming finally became truly convenient and practical
> with the introduction of the Wolfram Language. Treating expressions like as both symbolic data and the
application
> of a function provides a uniquely powerful way to integrate structure and function—and an efficient, elegant
> representation of many common computations.
I see nothing on the reference page that could be said to make Wolfram's FP constructs more convenient or practical. They make it sound like FP was a long lost dream but then Wolfram came along and actually made it happen. They're seemingly using the exact same constructs as everyone else.
What you do actually get from the reference page, though, is that they went the Haskell route and decided the FP stuff shouldn't be readable by anyone who hasn't used the language before. This is all fine and dandy, really; it's a model as good as any other, since it at least gives writability where it loses readability... They aren't doing anything new, from the looks of it, though. They seem to be doing precisely the opposite... In exactly the same way.
> Long viewed as an important theoretical idea, functional programming finally became truly convenient and practical
> with the introduction of the Wolfram Language. Treating expressions like as both symbolic data and the application
> of a function provides a uniquely powerful way to integrate structure and function—and an efficient, elegant
> representation of many common computations.
I see nothing on the reference page that could be said to make Wolfram's FP constructs more convenient or practical. They make it sound like FP was a long lost dream but then Wolfram came along and actually made it happen. They're seemingly using the exact same constructs as everyone else.
What you do actually get from the reference page, though, is that they went the Haskell route and decided the FP stuff shouldn't be readable by anyone who hasn't used the language before. This is all fine and dandy, really; it's a model as good as any other, since it at least gives writability where it loses readability... They aren't doing anything new, from the looks of it, though. They seem to be doing precisely the opposite... In exactly the same way.
[0] - https://reference.wolfram.com/language/guide/FunctionalProgr...